Ontario News

TORONTO — The race to replace John Tory, who stepped down as Toronto's mayor after an affair with a staffer, is heating up.

Ontario's budget will include $224 million more to build and upgrade training centres, Premier Doug Ford announced Tuesday, part of a push to boost the skilled trades as the government plans major hospital, highway and home building.

VAUGHAN, Ont. — Canada's national security agency briefed the Ontario premier's chief of staff after allegations of election interference by China were tied to a member of his caucus, Premier Doug Ford said Tuesday.

TORONTO — Police say they've recovered 78 stolen vehicles and arrested four people suspected of being part of an auto theft group that allegedly targeted cars in the Greater Toronto Area.

Their company has already washed nearly half a million plastic containers, but the founders of Friendlier hope to scrub more and expand their operations as Canada phases out single-use plastics.

TORONTO — One person is dead and two others are in hospital after a "very brazen daytime shooting" in a parking lot at an east-end Toronto mall, police said Monday evening.

It's been a challenging winter for some snow plow operators and residents in cities across the Greater Toronto Area.

TORONTO — A new omnibus labour bill introduced Monday in Ontario would slap steep fines on employers who withhold migrant workers' passports, extend mass layoff protections to remote workers and require more washrooms on construction sites.

WINDSOR, Ont. — A 24-year-old Toronto man is facing arson charges after police say a Windsor, Ont., house was levelled in a deliberate explosion.

TORONTO — Ontario Provincial Police have arrested and charged a suspect in the abduction of a 37-year-old woman from an Ontario town.